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Old February 15th 09, 04:50 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default When jetliners become gliders.

On Feb 15, 7:45*am, wrote:
Finally, Mr. Diblin has researched the actual stats. Supprised us
there have been 14 such incidents in 38 years, but actually remembered
almost all.

How many flights do you recall?



How about a successful airliner ditching captured on film?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkR4F3_fEUQ

More than 50 years before Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger saved 155
people by ditching a US Airways jetliner in the Hudson River, there
was Richard Ogg. The Pan Am pilot successfully ditched a Boeing 377
Stratocruiser in the Pacific Ocean in 1956, saving all 31 people
aboard. The heroics became the subject of a book, a movie, television
features and training videos.

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